Nikephoros Choumnos, Byzantine monk, scholar, and politician (born 1250)

Nikephoros Choumnos

13th and 14th-century Byzantine scholar

Nikephoros Choumnos was a Byzantine scholar and official of the early Palaiologan period, one of the most important figures in the flowering of arts and letters of the so-called "Palaiologan Renaissance". He is notable for his eleven-year tenure as chief minister of emperor…